Growing Capital

How to aquire or where to find capital  to invest or start my  dream business ? This question is very common among newbie entrepreneurs, those with little or no experience in business world.

In this article, we are going to answer this question, we are going to include practical examples from Tuta life commercial experiments, we are going to include a theory and steps towards growing capital.

Before you can think of capital, you must think of yourself, most importantly your mindset. Starting your own business or your own projects  requires high level of commitment due to different business environment conditions. You must convince your mind that the process to succeed is always under construction. 

That is why it is advised that you have to spend considerable time working on your business plan before you can think of capital to start. During business planning, you must invest extra effort in market research, trying to understand if your idea is scalable and to see if your idea is going to be a solution to human problems within your market. 

After completing that step, you can proceed to step 0, that is starting with what you have, never wait for conditions to be conducive, start with simple tools and improve along the way.

Here we are going to consider a certain example, let's say you would like to start cooking oil manufacturing company,  it is crucial that you must possess a complete business plan document with real time supplier contact details, suppliers of raw materials required, machinery required, packaging required, staff required, as well as complete cost data, so that you will know an exact figure of capital required to start your dream enterprise. 

Let's Assume the total amount to be $150 000, once you have an exact figure like this, you can implement the theory of growing capital to raise this amount of money. 

What is this theory all about??

This theory suggest that, you must have access to free unutilised resources, you must have an ability to aquire free simple tools. For instance, there is free land and free water in the highlands of Chipinge district Zimbabwe. With these resources, step 0 is to find a piece job, or to collect sweeping bushes to raise $15. With this $15, go and buy tomatoe seeds.

You can start with 75g of seed which approximate to 15 000 plants of tomatoes, we assume each plant produce $2 for the entire season (3-5 months). So this theory assumes that you can raise $30 000 in 3-5 months. 

With this amount, invest in poultry farming and invest back in Hoticulture, that is Potato, cabbage, Tomato and Onion. Scale up your projects for the  next season. Let's assume 45 000 plants of Cabbage, 45 000 plants of tomatoes, 45 000 bulbs of onion. With due amount to be raised, add it together with poultry profits, your capital should have to be enough to invest in Cooking oil manufacturing company. 

The theory of growing capital suggest that, you must start with mentality training and business planning, step 2- you must find a piece job or find free raw materials to collect and sell at the market place, step 3- start Hoticulture projects in rural areas where there is free land and free water as well as cheap labour,  step 4- scale your projects and reinvest more.

Challenges, 

Accessibility of Free or cheap natural resources is not open to everyone, it depends with place to place, however, in The Highlands of Zimbabwe (Chipinge rural areas) I have discovered that, with little or no money you can aquire a piece of land with free water in the river banks to grow your Capital for the first time. 

These highlands of Chipinge are difficult places due to it's mountainous structure, therefore transportation of produce might be relatively expensive compared with many regions in the country. 

These highlands are still rural and primitive with very low standards of living, no electricity, they depend on borehole water, they use firewood for cooking.

Climbing mountains up and down might be difficult for many.

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